Armistice of Brest-Litovsk: 10 Dec 1917

After 12 days of exhaustive negotiations, representatives of the German government and the new
Bolshevik regime agreed on the terms of an armistice that ended hostilities on the Eastern Front. In the
following months, formal treaty negotiations were conducted that led to the signing of the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918.

The end of the war on the Eastern Front allowed the Germans to transfer several divisions to the
Western Front. By March 1918, General Erich von Ludendorff, the German Chief-of-Staff, had assembled
over 3 million troops for a series of offensives in the spring and summer of 1918. The Germans,
however, would avoid attacking the Canadian-held sectors on the Western Front.